Roe v. Wade and gun violence take center stage at BET Awards - CNN

It's a sad day in America."

"A weapon that can take lives has more power than a woman who can give life if she chooses to," Henson added.

That sentiment was on the minds of many women in the entertainment industry around the world.

At the Glastonbury music festival in England over the weekend, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish and several other artists blasted the Supreme Court's ruling on Friday, which overturned a woman's constitutional right to end a pregnancy after nearly half a century.

At the BET Awards, singer and actress Janelle Monáe presented the first award of the night, best female/R&B artist, and hailed Black artists - women in particular.

"Owning our truth and expressing ourselves freely and unapologetically in a world that tries to control and police our bodies, my body and our decisions," she said.